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181614121086420Power conversion efficiency (%)lowest performinghighest performingPower Conversion Efficiency of Lowest and Highest PerformingSpin-coated and Spray-coatedElectron Transport LayersThicknessspray coatingspin coating
  • For each data category, the following bars are shown:
    • spray coating
    • spin coating
  • The data for the 2 categories are as follows:
    • lowest performing:
      • spray coating: 15.48%
      • spin coating: 11.70%
    • highest performing:
      • spray coating: 17.26%
      • spin coating: 13.56%

Perovskite solar cells convert light into electricity more efficiently than earlier kinds of solar cells, and manufacturing advances have recently made them commercially attractive. One limitation of the cells, however, has to do with their electron transport layer (ETL), through which absorbed electrons must pass. Often the ETL is applied through a process called spin coating, but such ETLs are fairly inefficient at converting input power to output power. André Taylor and colleagues tested a novel spray coating method for applying the ETL. The team produced ETLs of various thicknesses and concluded that spray coating holds promise for improving the power conversion efficiency of ETLs in perovskite solar cells.

Which choice best describes data from the graph that support Taylor and colleagues’ conclusion?